I love everything that comes from Tin Books. This wasn't really in my wheelhouse of interests, but still well-written and interesting. Feel that my collection's readership wouldn't get a huge amount from this, but I imagine it will do very well in Los Angeles (ha!)

Always Crashing in the Same Car is a thoughtful memoir in which the author shares tales from his own life in Los Angeles along with those of other LA artists who have touched his life in some way. Whether it be a musician whose song provided the soundtrack to a life-changing event in the author's own life, or an analysis of thr career of a screenwriter who reminds the author of his own mother, Matthew Spektor does a wonderful job illustrating the ways in which we can relate others' art and lives to our own personal triumphs and tragedies (or, as he might be more apt to say, successes and failures). I enjoyed this portrait of LA-based creatives through the decades who dreamt big, worked hard, yet in many ways didn't get what they bargained for. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for the opportunity to review an e-ARC of this book.

Always Crashing in the Same Car weaves a portrait of stories together pieced by the authors experience and the ever elusive city of Los Angeles. Having lived in the neighboring cities my entire life a trip to LA was always filled with promise'; the promise of a good time, the promise of a one night stand and sometimes the promise of being disappointed and left standing outside the club in a line for hours. In Always Crashing Matthew Specktor shares intimate family stories with Los Angeles always looming in the background waiting to share the stage with heartbreak, with divorce and with complicated family relationships. Reading this book reminded me of sitting in echo park on a lazy sunday afternoon watching people in floating swans in the lake and runners going through the path surrounding it, an experience of mild amusement and boredom all in one. Specktor manages to write about LA in a way that any one who has lived in it or dreamed of moving here uniquely relatable and recognizable and in the process; giving LA a little more heart and a newfound breath of fresh air.